When I lived in NL I rarely had to pay anything to the USG. The problem was in creating the 70+ page document that the IRS required every year. For that I had t

When I lived in NL I rarely had to pay anything to the USG. The problem was in creating the 70+ page document that the IRS required every year. For that I had to hire someone and pay them close to 1000eu every year. The problem for US citizens in developed countries WRT to the US taxes is not the taxes themselves. Rather it is the burden of complying with the law, and the cost of finding competent tax preparers knowledgeable in both US tax law, and local tax law. Everyone's circumstances are different. So there is no single/repeatable method for resolution.